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Reframing Rhetorical History

Cases, Theories, and Methodologies

by Kathleen J. Turner, Kathleen J. Turner, Jason Edward Black, Andrew D. Barnes, Bryan Crable, Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Matthew deTar, Margaret Franz0, Madison A. Krall1, Joe Edward Hatfield2, J. Michael Hogan3, Andre E. Johnson4, Melody Lehn5, Lisbeth A. Lipari6, Chandra A. Maldonado7, Roseann M. Mandziuk8, Christina L. Moss9, Christopher J. Oldenburg0, Sean Patrick O'Rourke1, Daniel P. Overton2, Shawn J. Parry-Giles3, Philip Perdue4 ...

Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
A collection of essays providing insights into new directions in rhetorical historyKathleen J. Turner’s 1998 multicontributor volume Doing Rhetorical History: Concepts and Cases quickly became a foundational text in the field, and the studies in the book have served as an important roadmap for scholars undertaking such scholarship. In the decades since its publication, developments in rhetorical ... Read more

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A collection of essays providing insights into new directions in rhetorical historyKathleen J. Turner’s 1998 multicontributor volume Doing Rhetorical History: Concepts and Cases quickly became a foundational text in the field, and the studies in the book have served as an important roadmap for scholars undertaking such scholarship. In the decades since its publication, developments in rhetorical
... Read more
Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith

by Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Jeffrey Bogaczyk, Devin Bryson, Bradley W. Griffin, Mark A. Gring, Kirsten L. Isgro, Christopher J. Oldenburg, Elizabeth S. Parks, Steven L. Reagles, L. Ripley Smith0, Barbara S. Spies1, Jacob Stutzman2, Peter A. Verkruyse3, Annalee R. Ward4, Kallia O. Wright5, Mark A.E. Williams7 ...

In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural, and a partial issues as significant and edifying dimensions of the study of communication and religion. ... Read more

$121.99 USD

In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural spheres, augmented by the "contracting" of relationship among people and nations, Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith highlights geographical, architectural, and a partial issues as significant and edifying dimensions of the study of communication and religion.
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A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue

Living Within the Abrahamic Traditions

by Greg G. Armfield, Diana I. Bowen, Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Kenneth Danielson, Maria Dixon, Paul Fortunato, James Keaten, Padma Kuppa, Elizabeth McLaughlin, Rose M. Metts, Ramesh Rao, Charles Soukup, Barbara S. Spies, Dr. Mark Ward Sr. ...

Communication theory provides a compelling way to understand how people of faith can and should work together in today’s tumultuous world. In A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue, fifteen authors present their experiences and analyses of interfaith dialogue, and contextualize interfaith work within the frame of rhetorical and communication studies. While the focus is on the Abrahamic ... Read more

$46.99 USD

Communication theory provides a compelling way to understand how people of faith can and should work together in today’s tumultuous world. In A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue, fifteen authors present their experiences and analyses of interfaith dialogue, and contextualize interfaith work within the frame of rhetorical and communication studies. While the focus is on the Abrahamic
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Casting the Art of Rhetoric with Theater and Drama

Taking Center Stage

by Christopher Lee Adamczyk, Casey Berner, Ann Broda, Mary P. Caulfield, Courtney Helen Grile, Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels, Amanda Hill, LaReina Hingson, Emma Loerick, Tony Palmeri0, John H. Saunders1, Valerie Lynn Schrader2, Jefferson Walker3, Dr. Jessica L. Neu4 ...

Casting the Art of Rhetoric with Theater and Drama: Taking Center Stage explores rhetoric and theater as they relate to one another, developing the understanding of rhetoric as theory and praxis. This book addresses rhetorical themes and cultural resonances, as well as the oft overlooked symbiosis of rhetoric and theater. Rather than addressing audiences as either observers of rhetorical artifacts ... Read more

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Casting the Art of Rhetoric with Theater and Drama: Taking Center Stage explores rhetoric and theater as they relate to one another, developing the understanding of rhetoric as theory and praxis. This book addresses rhetorical themes and cultural resonances, as well as the oft overlooked symbiosis of rhetoric and theater. Rather than addressing audiences as either observers of rhetorical artifacts
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Rhetoric, Religion, and Tragic Violence

Sacred Succor and Rancor

by Sergio Peña ...

Series Book 4 - Speaking of Religion
Sacred words often provide succor, summoned to comfort individual victims and entire communities ravaged by acts of violence. History also demonstrates, however, that religious discourse, like rhetoric itself, functions as a pharmakon—both a remedy and a poison. Religious discourse evoked to incite or justify violence functions as a kind of rancor or intense partisan anger that distorts reality, ... Read more

$36.99 USD

Sacred words often provide succor, summoned to comfort individual victims and entire communities ravaged by acts of violence. History also demonstrates, however, that religious discourse, like rhetoric itself, functions as a pharmakon—both a remedy and a poison. Religious discourse evoked to incite or justify violence functions as a kind of rancor or intense partisan anger that distorts reality,
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The Historians Paradox

by Peter Charles Hoffer ...

How do we know what happened in the past? We cannot go back, and no amount of historical data can enable us to understand with absolute certainty what life was like “then.” It is easy to demolish the very idea of historical knowing, but it is impossible to demolish the importance of historical knowing. In an age of cable television pundits and anonymous bloggers dueling over history, the value of ... Read more

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How do we know what happened in the past? We cannot go back, and no amount of historical data can enable us to understand with absolute certainty what life was like “then.” It is easy to demolish the very idea of historical knowing, but it is impossible to demolish the importance of historical knowing. In an age of cable television pundits and anonymous bloggers dueling over history, the value of
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Why Study History?

Reflecting on the Importance of the Past

by John Fea ...

What is the purpose of studying history? How do we reflect on contemporary life from a historical perspective and can such reflection help us better understand ourselves, the world around us, and the God we worship and serve?In this introductory textbook, accomplished historian John Fea shows why Christians should study history, how faith is brought to bear on our understanding of the past, and ... Read more

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What is the purpose of studying history? How do we reflect on contemporary life from a historical perspective and can such reflection help us better understand ourselves, the world around us, and the God we worship and serve?In this introductory textbook, accomplished historian John Fea shows why Christians should study history, how faith is brought to bear on our understanding of the past, and
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America the Philosophical

by Carlin Romano ...

A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and ... Read more

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A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and
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Black Dignity

The Struggle against Domination

by Vincent W. Lloyd ...

Why Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophyThis radical work by one of the leading young scholars of Black thought delineates a new concept of Black dignity, yet one with a long history in Black writing and action. Previously in the West, dignity has been seen in two ways: as something inherent in one’s station in life, whether ... Read more

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Why Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophyThis radical work by one of the leading young scholars of Black thought delineates a new concept of Black dignity, yet one with a long history in Black writing and action. Previously in the West, dignity has been seen in two ways: as something inherent in one’s station in life, whether
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Racecraft

The Soul of Inequality in American Life

by Karen Fields, Barbara J. Fields ...

Hailed by Zadie Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates, this new edition of the celebrated contemporary work on race and racism “ought to be positioned at the center of any discussion of race in American life” (Bookforum).Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields ... Read more

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Hailed by Zadie Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates, this new edition of the celebrated contemporary work on race and racism “ought to be positioned at the center of any discussion of race in American life” (Bookforum).Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields
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Amusing Ourselves to Death

Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

by Neil Postman ...

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever."It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNNOriginally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic ... Read more

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What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever."It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNNOriginally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic
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Fear of Black Consciousness

by Lewis R. Gordon ...

Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopherIn this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the ... Read more

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Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopherIn this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the
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